Chronicles five hundred years of African-American history from the origins of slavery on the African continent through Barack Obama's second presidential term,

African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from

Blending a vivid narrative with more than 150 images of artwork, Painter offers a history--from before slavery to today's hip-hop culture--written for a new gen

In 2000, the United States census allowed respondents for the first time to tick a box marked “African American” in the race category. The new option marked

From pamphlets denouncing slavery to boycotts of Hollywood, African Americans have fought for adequate representations of themselves in the mass media industrie